Video: Steve Harrigan gets waterboarded on Fox

posted at 2:06 pm on November 4, 2006 by Allahpundit

He could barely get through his report, so shattered was he by the experience. By the end of the segment he’s reduced to sobbing and pointing to a copy of “The Conservative Soul” that he’s held up to the camera.

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Oh the inhumanity of it! Stop it! There ought to be a law against this sort of thing! Come Tuesday, we may well be on our way to getting one courtesy of Pelosi, Murtha, Kerry, Kennedy, Rengal, Webb, etc., etc.

What is it that they blurred out in front of the heating unit just above his head? It is some kind of yellow-ish stip of something. A label? A secret tool? What? They blurred it out, so it must have some significance to someone.

Gee, how come the Bush Administration WOULDN’T DEFEND this obviously non torturous technique? How come they didn’t point out that OUR SOLDIERS and CIA AGENTS are ROUTINELY waterboarded as part of their TRAINING? While we’re at it, why doesn’t the Bush admin defend itself at all? I mean, they just released papers that show how close Iraq was to getting nukes and as far as I can determine they have just sat back and allowed lying assed liberals to mischaracterize those papers as somehow indicative of ANOTHER BUSH SCREW UP!!!! What is wrong with these people???????

How come they didn’t point out that OUR SOLDIERS and CIA AGENTS are ROUTINELY waterboarded as part of their TRAINING?

We don’t talk about techniques we do or do not use, because we’d like to win and therefore don’t want to show our enemies the hand we’re playing. The NYT, on the other hand, loves doing that sort of thing.

75% of the Abu Ghraib “torture” takes place during our military induction physical.

Soothsayer,
I understand where you are coming from asking why The President didn’t defend this technique, but I think he was right not to. The reason is that if he gets into any specifics about any kind of interrogation methods then he could likely be lead into saying something that would give our enemies some useful information.

Because I don’t want “jokes” about killing people on the site. People in the media who want to smear Michelle will look for this stuff and point to it as proof of the kind of commenters she attracts. And then you’ll say, “BUT I WAS KIDDING!” But meanwhile, the story will already be written and published and she’ll have to bear the brunt.

Sorry to disagree, but I’ve seen a lot worse said on this site, and it wasn’t said in jest. You’re going to have your hands full monitoring every word and phrase posted by commenters here, if you expect to remove anything that sheds a bad light on Michelle, you or HotAir.

I guess I’ll just have to stifle my sarcastic commentaries in the future.

AP, if you want to see someone else with some moxie, see if you can get a clip of Joe Paterno getting run into on the sideline today. He’s lucky his leg wasn’t shattered. And he wanted to remain there before they carted him off.

I have to admit, though, there are around 2,800 troops who will never have to worry about finding a job ever again.

Constantine on November 4, 2006 at 2:49 PM

This kind of humor is OK? Making a joke about brave soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country remains posted on the thread? Making a crack about dead soldiers passes the PC test, but my crack about an NBC reporter is off base.

This is what our own Congress should have been doing before going off the deep end with their hysterical reaction that water boarding was torture.

I had it done to me in training and could not understand the outrage by people like John McCain. They should demonstrate some of the other things that were done to me that were far worse as far as pain goes.

I guess the little people now understand how their own leaders are a bunch of wimps now that Steve has demonstrated this technique.

Am I the only person reminded, by the liberal drumbeat on torture these past few years, by Lenny Bruce’s classic “hot lead enema” routine?

When Amnesty International says that torture doesn’t even get good information, the scientist in me wonders if they’ve done a controlled experiment. Certainly, from Stanley Milgram on down numerous lab tests have shown how people can be coerced. American POWs in Korea and Vietnam broke, in some cases.

If the lives of my kids, granddaughter or country were threatened, I say get out the bars of solder and a propane torch.

Clearly torture. You neocons can follow King George in to this torturous, phone tapping, police state all you want. Me and my liberal friends would rather thousands of people die than have a jihadi be uncomfortable enough to give up information.

Wow, this is some Book of the New Sun stuff: maximum effect with maximum efficiency. Why cause damage when you can use mankind’s inborn terror of drowning to do your work for you? For any history wonks out there, look up medieval water torture for some truly scary stuff. This is peanuts beside it! And bravo for Mr. Harrigan! A very intriguing and informative report. Thanks for posting it AP.

Damn, my sarcasm was too obvious this time. Last time I pulled something to the effect of my earlier comment I had a bunch of shocked Republicans demanding I explain myself. It was great.. practical joke via blog comments.